Rate of mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet will exceed Holocene values this century.


Journal

Nature
ISSN: 1476-4687
Titre abrégé: Nature
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0410462

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
10 2020
Historique:
received: 30 12 2019
accepted: 27 07 2020
entrez: 1 10 2020
pubmed: 2 10 2020
medline: 2 10 2020
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

The Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS) is losing mass at a high rate

Identifiants

pubmed: 32999481
doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2742-6
pii: 10.1038/s41586-020-2742-6
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

70-74

Commentaires et corrections

Type : CommentIn
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Auteurs

Jason P Briner (JP)

Department of Geology, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA. jbriner@buffalo.edu.

Joshua K Cuzzone (JK)

Department of Earth System Science, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.

Jessica A Badgeley (JA)

Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.

Nicolás E Young (NE)

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Geochemistry, Palisades, NY, USA.

Eric J Steig (EJ)

Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.

Mathieu Morlighem (M)

Department of Earth System Science, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA.

Nicole-Jeanne Schlegel (NJ)

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.

Gregory J Hakim (GJ)

Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.

Joerg M Schaefer (JM)

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Geochemistry, Palisades, NY, USA.
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.

Jesse V Johnson (JV)

Department of Computer Science, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA.

Alia J Lesnek (AJ)

Department of Geology, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA.

Elizabeth K Thomas (EK)

Department of Geology, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA.

Estelle Allan (E)

Geotop, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada.

Ole Bennike (O)

Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Allison A Cluett (AA)

Department of Geology, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA.

Beata Csatho (B)

Department of Geology, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA.

Anne de Vernal (A)

Geotop, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada.

Jacob Downs (J)

Department of Computer Science, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA.

Eric Larour (E)

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.

Sophie Nowicki (S)

Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, Greenbelt, MD, USA.

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